[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta date="2010-03-10 15:55 UTC"]] A month of the Hurd: *DDE driver*, *X.org / libpciaccess*, *FOSDEM*, and *Google Summer of Code 2010*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" > A bit late, but here it is finally: the *MotH* for February, 2010. > This month saw the first running and testable > [[DDE driver by Zheng Da|user/zhengda]], > with which he begins to reap the benefits of porting [[DDE]] to the Hurd -- > essentially, allowing us to use current Linux device drivers. > Samuel Thibault pushed a [libpciaccess x86 > backend](http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libpciaccess/commit/?id=af2be74979aeab9a2fc4c933462e97ce70f816b6) > to X.Org: > > This adds support on x86 for OSes that do not have a PCI interface, > > tinkering with I/O ports, and makes use of it on GNU/Hurd. > In the course of this, he also got commit access to X.org, so it should be > easier now to get further Hurd-related patches applied. > As announced in our [[previous news blurb|2010-01-31]], at FOSDEM, Bas did > his presentation of [*Iris, a new capability-based microkernel > OS*](http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/emb_iris) in the Embedded > Developer Room, and Olaf illustrated [*Why is Anyone Still Working on the GNU > Hurd?*](http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/altos_hurd), and presented his > work of [*Porting KGI graphics drivers from Linux to GNU > Hurd*](http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/altos_kgi_hurd), in the Alt-OS > Developer Room. > In [Mikel Olasagasti's > words](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-03/msg00014.html): > > The room was full and people was "standing-up" for the talk. Some people > > even couldn't enter to the room (+20?). > > > > Antrik [Olaf] made a good job. Was nice for the crowd to see Hurd running X, > > slow but working. > The regular IRC meeting schedule has been > [changed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-02/msg00040.html) > to Wednesdays, 11:00 UTC; see the [[IRC#regular_meetings]] page for details. > Last, but not least, it is time again to think about the [[Google Summer of > Code|community/gsoc]]. In [[community/gsoc/2007]], the GNU Hurd had one > successful project, in [[community/gsoc/2008]] five of them, > [[community/gsoc/2009]] saw another one, so we obviously plan to make it five > projects again this year. We already have [[dozens of > ideas|community/gsoc/project ideas]] online, and will add yet more -- also > based on YOUR suggestions and wishes! > So, if you're a student, and interested in working on the GNU Hurd, please > join in; browse through the [[community/GSoC]] pages, and don't be shy to > [[contact us]]! """]]